In the early 1980's, the DUKES of Dixieland ran their own club DUKES PLACE atop the Monteleone Hotel in the French Quarter. We were shooting many jazz artists from around the world, and we decided to pick five of the top dixieland bands on Bourbon Street at the time, and record a series of 5 half…
Back in November of 1984, Leisure Jazz was producing a series of jazz shows for PBS entitled “Music from Mahogany Hall”, shot in the New Orleans French Quarter. One of those 60 minute shows featured three singers who called themselves "The Pfister Sisters" featuring Holley Bendtsen,…
Don Menza in New Orleans” Features one of jazz’s most prolific composers and saxophone virtuosos. Menza has played with and arranged for some of the great big bands in American jazz including Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich and Woody Herman. This Leisure Video presentation features him in a…
In this music video the DUKES have taken New Orleans Jazz not only uptown, but one step further. Add the DUKES of Dixieland with the New Orleans Pops Orchestra and you get an exciting dose of New Orleans Symphonic Jazz. You will hear the usual New Orleans fare, “Basin Street Blues”, “A…
Back in April 1983, Leisure Jazz was producing a series of jazz shows at the then home of the DUKES of Dixieland, Dukes’ Place, located atop the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans French Quarter. One of those series was called "Jazz From New Orleans", one hour specials that featured the…
Luther Kent was born in 1948 and began singing 14 years later, and was signed to Montel records under the name Duke Royal. In 1970 he became the lead singer of a Lou Adler group, Cold Grits, that was signed to his Ode Records, but never released, because of the group's break-up. He changed his…
BAYOU MAHARAJAH explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced." This roller coaster portrait traces Booker’s life from his early years as a chart-topping child…
Ludwig van Beethoven’s work is legendary – and already was while he was still alive. He is famous around the world, and yet little is known about the conditions under which his music was composed. One thing is certain: he composed most of his masterpieces AFTER the onset of his deafness.…
Ludwig van Beethoven ist ein Mythos – und das schon zu seinen eigenen Lebzeiten. So sehr seine Popularität heute weltweit noch zunimmt, so wenig weiß man über die erschütternden Umstände, unter denen seine Musik entstand. Beethoven ist bereits im Alter von 31 Jahren ertaubt.…
British trombonist Chris Barber was born in 1930 and actually began the British invasion of musicians in the 1960's with his transatlantic hit "Petite fleur" in 1959 followed by another hit, "Rock Island Line", which sparked young musicians like Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. In…
Arnett Cobb was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known as the "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax" because of his uninhibited stomping style. Born in Houston, at the age of 15, he traveled with Louisiana bandleader Frank Davis along with Wild Bill Davis up to 1936; then with Milt Larkiin's…
https://AHM.lnk.to/Alvin-AileyVD ALVIN AILEY - An Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Choreography by: Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Talley Beatty Produced by: RM Arts/Danmarks Radio/ZDF/ORF Orchestra/Chorus/Bellet: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre In this brilliant studio…
